O saneamento e a questão social em Periperi (Salvador/Ba): um olhar sob o enfoque da drenagem urbana -1989 a 2013

Abstract

This paper deals with the analysis of the implementation of public sanitation policies - with an emphasis on urban drainage - the territory of Perivale (Salvador / BA), and the role played in this process by the municipal government and the local community. Its spatial and temporal clipping, respectively (Suburban Railway) neighborhood Perivale, and the period 1989-2013, which covers the beginning of the drainage works and the Rio Paraguari the recent drafting of the Municipal Sanitation Plan (PMSB). The methodology consisted of quantitative and qualitative research through in the first case, the survey of public investments by the Municipality of Salvador / BA, the respective municipal administrations in respect of works macrodrainage in the Suburbs Railway and in other areas of the city. In the second case, the qualitative research covered, at first, about the analysis of local community participation in the implementation of the drainage of the Rio Paraguari in the 1980s and 1990s, the process and the second time, the formalization of current demands in PMSB. As a result it follows that, despite public investments, fell short of these demands. Regarding participation, has been the first time the performance of the Association of Residents of Paraguari as an important agent in the implementation of public policies. On the second point, however, regarding the development of the Municipal Plan for Urban Drainage Salvador / BA, register the distance of the community Paraguari its initial political context. In this sense, it can be concluded that the district Perivale occupies a privileged position not in the context of the city, witnessed by the lack of basic services, particularly with regard to drainage resulting from the shortage of municipal investments, compared to other districts of average and high-income city, resulting in a condition of social exclusion, requiring a greater contribution of public investment, with a view to his rise to an urban structure, with the provision of infrastructure and services, and the reduction of social inequality.